The Geek in Me

Everybody around me know that I'm a through-and-through geek, who loves technology and gadgets. This love for technology began with the purchase of my Mum's "PC for doing doctoral research". While most of her doctoral research was completed on that PC, 90% of the PC utilisation was by the "men in the house" - my Dad and us kids. My Dad, surprisingly for his age, took to technology and all things computer-related like a fish takes in the water. On the day when the PC was purchased, I got off the school bus at a halfway point (or I had to wait for the bus to go all around the city and then reach my house) and literally ran home for a couple kilometers. I come in, all excited, sit down at the brand new PC, switch it on - and get that famous DOS black screen with the C:\> prompt. My dad, sitting next to me, is waiting - and I didn't know what to do next. So then he proceeded to type that then-unknown command "win", entered Windows 3.1 and showed me what fun the Paint application could be. I was hooked from then on. My dad, my bro and I have spent hours and hours gaming, working and figuring out computers since then. My bro and I have tech knowledge that far surpasses that of my Dad's. But without that initial launch, without my Dad allowing us to run amok inside the computer (and crash it repeatedly!) I wouldn't be the geek that I am today. Thanks, Dad.